There was a time in the Funkiverse when a lame quip like Holly makes here would have drawn at least an appreciative chuckle from Les. But now that he’s a soon-to-be-published author (and he’s wearing a STAFF shirt and carrying a bullhorn and clipboard), the supercilious douchebag just shoots her a look. Also “running” away in panel 3 is Funky’s half-smile, replaced with a more appropriate “Ah shit, what does it matter” expression.
Nice “Paulie Walnuts” gray streaks on Les today…
Is this the Lisa’s Legacy Race or the Halloween Parade? How else to explain the person with Funky who is wearing that giant paper mache replica of Holly’s head? Check the body language of Mr. and Mrs. Winkerbean: instead of ambling along, arm in arm, Funky appears to be elbowing Holly aside, while she staggers under the weight that gargantuan cranium. I’m not kidding, that head’s like Sputnik! Spherical, but quite pointy in parts. Well, that was off sides, wasn’t it? She’ll be crying herself to sleep tonight…on her huge pillow. (Can anyone name that movie?)
Billythestink called it; where’d the picture atop the telly go? Vanished! And yet Pa Winkerbean’s chin triples in just one panel!
I for one, can’t wait for this week to be over. There’s no stilted dialog to make fun of, no “solo car dates” or any such thing, just a week of slow, boring time-killing!
Oh, wow, way to go, Funky, you made your dad almost smile by putting on some old movie. Either that or he’s passing gas.
Snarkers, it doesn’t take much in the math dept to figure that dear ol “one foot in the grave, one foot on a banana peel.” Winkerbean is, at youngest 66, at oldest, what, in his mid-80s? To say the man is a vegetable is an insult to garden produce; is it possible TB is trying to write about something he doesn’t really understand again?
Maybe I just know a lot of 80+ year old people that can still carry on a conversation, but I don’t think it’s just me.
Any regrets? Well here comes one now! There’s your fat-ass ungrateful son coming in to spend hours and hours with you staring at a television set, ignoring you like always but at least now he can feel *good* about ignoring you because he’s in the same room as you. Even though it appears death is coming (Why a week-long set up for a character we never see otherwise?) it won’t be soon enough; Batiuk is going to keep your poignant tale on the backburner until at least 2016.
Son of Stuck Funky 